<p>The wording on the Ohio Merit Scholarship sounds pretty “automatic” to me? </p>
<p>My problem is that my son had a “tangible” Ohio Merit award (that we were hoping to combine with the award below) and now he is totally at the whim of the scholarship folks for any additional merit aid.</p>
<p>He was offered the Multicultural Leadership Program scholarship ($ 5,000 per year - which has also disappeared and been removed from the website —type in MLPSI in the search box and you’ll see that these pages have been removed too) and the Miami folks at the conference said that the award was “stackable” with other merit aid. </p>
<p>With the elimination of the “tangible” awards, I think it is pretty easy for scholarship folks to ignore any additional merit aid now since they know he already has $ 5,000 coming.</p>
<p>OSU’s provost ($2100 for 29 ACT) and Trustees ($1050 for 27 ACT). Ohio U’s Gateway and Bowling Green’s Freshman scholarships (based on gpa and test scores) seem pretty objective and not subjective.</p>
<p>It just seems that the elimination of “tangible” awards gives the scholarship folks more wiggle room. I guess the state of Ohio’s funding for higher educations has dried up?</p>